The Death of the Cyberflâneur - NYTimes.com
february 2012 by ohskylab
"Frictionless sharing has the same drawback as “effortless poetry”: its final products are often intolerable. It’s one thing to find an interesting article and choose to share it with friends. It’s quite another to inundate your friends with everything that passes through your browser or your app, hoping that they will pick something interesting along the way."
via:blech
art
social
culture
history
from instapaper
february 2012 by ohskylab
totes profesh» Blog Archive » no country for old hackers
july 2011 by ohskylab
"Unless the web fragments again, and it’s once more us against them, I think we’re on the road to efficient and productive normalcy. Which is great in almost every way except that it’s just not as fun. The web is on its way to becoming a commodity [...] I haven’t given up. I just wonder sometimes how long we’ve got before we all have to stop being hackers and be software engineers." What's next?
web
history
innovation
development
from instapaper
july 2011 by ohskylab
Adactio: Journal—Erase and rewind
february 2011 by ohskylab
"The BBC is employing a slash-and-burn policy regarding online content. 172 websites are going to disappear down the memory hole. Just to be clear, these sites aren’t going to be archived. They are going to be deleted from the web. Server space is the new magnetic tape." Nnng.
bbc
web
history
jeremykeith
from delicious
february 2011 by ohskylab
Reasons to be Cheerful - Charlie's Diary
january 2011 by ohskylab
"An acquaintance asked, somewhat grumpily, if anything good had happened in the past decade". Always look on the bright side...
history
progress
optimism
charliestross
news
statistics
from delicious
january 2011 by ohskylab
The Tree Slider - GitHub
december 2010 by ohskylab
"The new HTML5 History API (which really has nothing to do with HTML — it's a JavaScript API) allows us to manage the URL changes while CSS3 transitions handle the sliding. Permalinks are always maintained, your back button works as expected, and it's much faster than waiting for a full page load."
github
javascript
api
back
history
from delicious
december 2010 by ohskylab
Commonplace book - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
november 2010 by ohskylab
"Such books were essentially scrapbooks filled with items of every kind: medical recipes, quotes, letters, poems, tables of weights and measures, proverbs, prayers, legal formulas. Commonplaces were used by readers, writers, students, and humanists as an aid for remembering useful concepts or facts they had learned. Each commonplace book was unique to its creator's particular interests."
books
history
wikipedia
notebooks
research
writing
ideas
november 2010 by ohskylab
In Search of Number One « Adventures in the infraordinary
september 2010 by ohskylab
"My plan for this project is to make my way down and back up Essex Road in Islington from number one to number 400-odd visiting every business along the way."
essexroad
islington
history
london
culture
september 2010 by ohskylab
The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations [ird059] : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
june 2010 by ohskylab
"The first comprehensive collection of Numbers Stations recordings released to the public."
irdial
audio
creativecommons
mp3
free
encryption
history
radio
communication
sound
june 2010 by ohskylab
Warning: Your reality is out of date - The Boston Globe
march 2010 by ohskylab
"Mesofacts are the facts that change neither too quickly nor too slowly, that lie in this difficult-to-comprehend middle, or meso-, scale. Often, we learn these in school when young and hold onto them, even after they change."
via:russelldavies
mesofacts
culture
education
history
facts
knowledge
information
march 2010 by ohskylab
Scott and Scurvy
march 2010 by ohskylab
"In the second half of the nineteenth century, the cure for scurvy was lost. The story of how this happened is a striking demonstration of the problem of induction, and how progress in one field of study can lead to unintended steps backward in another."
badscience
science
history
nutrition
diet
health
research
food
march 2010 by ohskylab
What went wrong with Freecycle in the UK? - The Ecologist
october 2009 by ohskylab
"Deron Beal and the US Network made no comment." Says it all, really.
freecycle
community
history
freegle
recycling
october 2009 by ohskylab
BENGE: Twenty Systems (Expanding Records) | themilkfactory
september 2009 by ohskylab
"With Twenty Systems, Edwards creates twenty tracks, one for each of the years between 1968 and 1987, and each built using just one synthesizer. The list of makes, Moog, ARP, Roland, Serge, Korg, Yamaha, Oberheim, and models used is likely to send shivers down the spines of many aficionados, and the accompanying liner notes provide much needed information on each machine."
music
synthesizers
audio
history
benge
reviews
top
september 2009 by ohskylab
Purely Penzance | The Penzance Town Trail
september 2009 by ohskylab
"This takes you on a circular route through the town, tracing its story through buildings and historical remains, rounds and medieval crosses, churches, chapels, farm towns and shops."
cornwall
uk
penzance
walking
history
september 2009 by ohskylab
Photojojo's Photo Time Capsule
july 2009 by ohskylab
"Twice a month, enjoy an email with your [Flickr] photos from a year ago".
tools
flickr
api
photography
history
time
nostalgia
memory
timecapsule
via:russelldavies
top
july 2009 by ohskylab
Skeuomorph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
june 2009 by ohskylab
a term used in the history of architecture, design, and archaeology. It refers to a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar, such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with circular town name and cancellation lines."
history
design
wikipedia
culture
architecture
skeuomorph
language
june 2009 by ohskylab
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » Things I’m Standing Next To
february 2009 by ohskylab
"It is difficult to overstate how impressive, and important, tools like Google Earth and PhotoSynth are visualizing geographies and in pushing the boundaries of what is possible both technically and conceptually. But both do so at the expense of what Scott McCloud calls “the magic in the gutter“."
flickr
geo
social
tomtaylor
nearby
dopplr
photography
history
geohashes
february 2009 by ohskylab
Orwell Diaries
july 2008 by ohskylab
"To mark the 70th anniversary of the [Orwell] diaries, each diary entry will be published on this blog exactly seventy years after it was written."
georgeorwell
politics
english
culture
weblogs
history
literature
top
july 2008 by ohskylab
Versionista.com: Track changes to any Web site
july 2008 by ohskylab
"Monitors Web sites that you specify for edits. Our Web-based service records every change, clearly highlighting added or deleted words and sentences."
internet
history
tools
web
monitoring
diff
july 2008 by ohskylab
Sniff browser history for improved user experience
february 2008 by ohskylab
Clever, well-meaning but crosses the privacy line.
javascript
browser
history
usability
css
web
security
february 2008 by ohskylab
Top 10 Tips for New Bloggers From Original Blogger Jorn Barger
december 2007 by ohskylab
"My intent for weblogs in 1997 was to make the web as a whole more transparent, via a sort of "mesh network," where each weblog amplifies just those signals (or links) its author likes best. 1998-1999 was for me the Golden Age of Weblogs."
blogging
history
nostalgia
web
del.icio.us
wired
december 2007 by ohskylab
De:Bug Texte: Philip Sherburne: From Glitch To Blog House
november 2007 by ohskylab
Great Sherburne article on the past, present and future of electronic music. "Scenes and sounds that were once strictly local affairs now have no problem connecting with niche publics anywhere on earth."
music
techno
history
electronic
top
strategy
november 2007 by ohskylab
3. Your history is interesting at New Music Strategies
september 2007 by ohskylab
"There is, by my estimation something of the order of twenty, possibly up to fifty times as much money to be made in the retrieval and reissue of lost gems as there is in releasing new recordings by new artists."
music
history
business
september 2007 by ohskylab
IEEE Spectrum: The Future of Music
august 2007 by ohskylab
"The loudness war, what many audiophiles refer to as an assault on music (and ears), has been an open secret of the recording industry for nearly the past two decades and has garnered more attention in recent years as CDs have pushed the limits of loudnes
top
music
audio
technology
compression
loudness
history
article
mp3
august 2007 by ohskylab
British History Online
april 2005 by ohskylab
"The digital library of text and information about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern period, built by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust."
history
uk
england
reference
britain
april 2005 by ohskylab
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The fate of London's Routemaster buses
april 2005 by ohskylab
"It's not the end of the road for the world-famous double-deckers. They are finding homes with lifelong fans - friends in search of fun, middle-aged men who should know better, even schoolgirls too young to drive."
transport
history
buses
public
london
routemaster
top
april 2005 by ohskylab
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